1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.
2. Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn’t let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must “heal the divide” and “come together.” They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.
3. Any Democratic member of Congress who didn’t wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that’s about to begin.
4. Everyone must stop saying they are “stunned” and “shocked.” What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all “You’re fired!”
Trump’s victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.
5. You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: “HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!” The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don’t. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he’s president is because of an arcane, insane, 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we’ll continue to have presidents we didn’t elect and didn’t want.
You live in a country where a majority of citizens have said they believe there’s climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don’t want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the “liberal” position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).
Let’s try to get this all done by noon today.
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For Gosh’s sake, STOP voting Democrat and get the 43% of Americans who didn’t vote mobilised somehow. Before the election, Michael Moore was canvassing for Clinton.
“The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. ”
No, Michael, Hillary did not get a MAJORITY, even of those who voted, and millions who could have voted did not.
“majority of citizens have said they believe there’s climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don’t want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. ”
This is true, but neither major party has any intention of doing those things. I agree with John Goodrich, above, that “taking over the Democratic Party” is a “non-starter”. We need to break the stranglehold of the “Two-Headed Monster”, the Corporate Party with its two wings.
Liberals overwhelmingly support both neo-liberal capitalism and the U.S. imperial foreign policy that enforces it upon the world , killing millions a year , every year through poverty , starvation, curable and preventable disease .
There are just two viable parties . Both support the same policies with cosmetic differences in social policies that serve to present a choice that is a non-choice to the voters .
No one rises to high levels of power and influence in the two parties without being vetted from their first day in the parties to ensure that they will maintain the status quo.
The parties are PRIVATE clubs for capitalists and imperialists and all others with a more humane worldview are excluded or, like a Bernie, kept as a token humanist without any power to change things .
Take back the Democratic Party from the center-right , pro-imperialist, pro-neo-liberal economy parties that have complete control of both parties the government ? and do so with the most effective propagandizing and self-serving corporate media to ever have existed working for these people’s agenda ?
Sure, and the good German people should have taken over The Nazi Party and made it the kinder, gentler party that it could have been .
We, the scared-shitless of the USA now have the same opportunity and the same chances of success as did the German people some 80 years ago of changing the direction of a government we were never intended to have much power over by the founding fathers .
A fool’s errand IMO